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Podcast: The Andrew Lawton Show
Episode: Election date change might make dozens more MPs eligible for pensions
Description: The Liberals are pushing to bump back the fixed election date by a week. They say it’s so the election doesn’t fall on Diwali, a Hindu holiday, but it conveniently delays the election enough so that dozens of MPs first elected in 2019 will be eligible for their gold-plated MP pensions. The government says this is purely coincidental, but True North’s Andrew Lawton is less convinced. What do you think? Canadian Taxpayers Federation Alberta director Kris Sims joins to discuss.Also, a Globe and Mail columnist is lamenting that excessive free speech leads to political outcom...